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What does trumped-up mean?

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Adjective
  1. Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured; usually in the phrase trumped-up charges referring to legal accusation of questionable veracity made for illegitimate reasons.
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Each time he was booked, he said, on trumped-up charges of disorderly conduct.
Djibouti thus did not only launch an unprovoked attack, but levelled a trumped-up and well-orchestrated accusation against Eritrea.
The trumped-up charges hung over his head for several years.
The internal process within the European Union must be shaped in a way that ensures that there are no trumped-up new grounds for delay.
The Tunisian authorities constantly use trumped-up charges to silence independent voices.
Saberi has herself been on hunger strike since 21 April in protest against her conviction on a trumped-up charge.

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